Doe v. GitHub already decided (I'm simplifying, read the actual thing yourself) that LLM output is not automatically open source - or specifically it doesn't infringe on the open source training material and doesn't inherit the oss copyright notice.

Thaler v. Perlmutter (again simplified) showed 100% AI output can't be given any copyright.

The directions the current cases are going are very much opposed to that idea and I wouldn't expect things to change in the opposite direction.

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mlaretallack 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Remember that's in the US, most other places (UK etc..), it can be copyrighted.

	▲	viraptor 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Unfortunately, even if other countries have different rules, the US service like GitHub still has to follow the US law and DMCA.

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echelon 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

AI generated art with human steering is copyrightable [1].

Agentic code development is human steering, thus copyrightable under the same grounds.

Open source code is copyrighted, otherwise we would be talking about public domain.

When you edit something in the public domain to enrich it, it then becomes copyrightable again.

[1] https://news.artnet.com/art-world/invoke-snags-first-ai-imag...

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unrented7977 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You can't apply naïve transitive reasoning to law. Law is not code. Your assertions are meaningless and unsupported noise until they're actually tried in a court.

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partloyaldemon 15 minutes ago | parent [-]

Was your assertion tried in court? legal reasoning is naïve transitive reasoning.

	▲	rookienumbers30 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		a statement about the legal system can be true without being litigated in the legal system. Courts rely on precedent in addition to logical argument, so their rulings cannot be deduced from rational argument alone.

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viraptor 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's legally untested, so we can't be sure one way or the other. But people definitely seem to assume that's the case.

	▲	mapontosevenths 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Every major corporation on earth is behaving as if it was. If/when it gets tested you can be sure that the pro-copyright side will be very, very well funded.

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conartist6 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

There's still something dark at the center; a lawless visciousness to the new era.